Crime

Clown dangled child from railroad overpass, report says

A Milwaukee man has been accused in Kenosha County with dangling a 13-year-old from a railroad overpass while dressed in a clown suit, according to state court records and a report from the Kenosha News.

Bail was set at $10,000 Monday for Antonio J. Brown, 33, after he was charged with two counts of child abuse and two counts of recklessly endangering safety, according to the records.

Shortly after 2 a.m. Saturday, a woman called police and reported seeing a man dressed like a clown dragging two screaming children into the woods east of the 4800 block of 13th Court, according to the Kenosha News.

According to the newspaper:

Brown, the boyfriend of the children's mother, had returned drunk from a Halloween party in Racine and invited the children to go for a walk on some nearby railroad tracks.

He forced the 13-year-old and an 8-year-old to drink an alcoholic beverage before they climbed onto the tracks from a hill.

The children tried to run away but were caught by Brown, who hung the 13-year-old over the 50th Street overpass while saying, "If you try that again I'm going to drop you."

When police arrived the two children were holding each other an crying uncontrollably, the newspaper reported.